Parallel Bible results for "job 6:12-22"

Job 6:12-22

12 Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my flesh made of bronze?

12 Do I have the strength of stone? Is my flesh bronze?

13 Clearly, I have no help in myself; common sense has been driven from me.

13 Do I have any power to help myself, now that success has been driven from me?

14 "A friend should be kind to an unhappy man, even to one who abandons Shaddai.

14 “Anyone who withholds kindness from a friend forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

15 But my brothers are as deceptive as vadis, as vadi streams that soon run dry;

15 But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow

16 they may turn dark with ice and be hidden by piled-up snow;

16 when darkened by thawing ice and swollen with melting snow,

17 but as the weather warms up, they vanish; when it's hot, they disappear.

17 but that stop flowing in the dry season, and in the heat vanish from their channels.

18 Their courses turn this way and that; they go up into the confusing waste and are lost.

18 Caravans turn aside from their routes; they go off into the wasteland and perish.

19 The caravans from Tema look for them, the travelers from Sh'va hope to find them;

19 The caravans of Tema look for water, the traveling merchants of Sheba look in hope.

20 but they are disappointed, because they were confident; on arrival there, they are frustrated.

20 They are distressed, because they had been confident; they arrive there, only to be disappointed.

21 "For now, you have become like that -just seeing my calamity makes you afraid.

21 Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid.

22 Did I say to you, 'Give me something,'or, 'From your wealth, offer a bribe on my behalf,'

22 Have I ever said, ‘Give something on my behalf, pay a ransom for me from your wealth,